October 2008
6 posts
WatchI’m gonna rely on you, friendly blog readers, to tell me in the comments whether I’m making an ass of myself in this video blog format.
Carrying around my D90, I find myself shooting these half-things of video that I never cover well enough to put online. This fireworks thing, I imagined just as a short scene or sequence — not a project, just an experiment. And even then it ended up...
WatchHere’s a video I shot over the weekend: Austin, Texas’ very own chapter of the worldwide “Thrill the World” thing. There are some things I’dve shot differently, but all in all it went well.
Hat tip to Drew, who once told me (not sure of the exact quote) that any idiot can shoot a dance sequence; a vague memory of that conversation convinced me to get that one shot...
Merykid coda
In the fall of 2005 I shot an art festival in Marfa. It always happens over one weekend in September or October, and I’ve always wanted to go back and shoot it again. But in 2006 I was shooting a weeklong story in the Gulf of Mexico, on a ship studying the dead zone off the Louisiana coast. Then in 2007 I was following a series of border wall protests with Drew. Then this year, in 2008,...
WatchHere’s the much ballyhooed “project” that’s demanded that I post so many old film shots on the blog. Do yourself a favor; click this HD link, and watch it fullscreen. High definition on Vimeo is amazing.
Technical notes: There’s some video in here that was shot on the D90. The quality of the practice footage at the end looks good, the way it looks straight out of...
in haunted attics
As an aside: the title of this post comes from my favorite Radiohead song, “True Love Waits;” one of the lines goes, “and true love waits / in haunted attics; and true love lives / on lollipops and crisps.” Anyway, the connection is, these were shot in the attic of what I understand to be a flea market in San Antonio. It’s a kind of a place where music happens, and...
